Religion: Diplomats on the Move

Last week Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's special envoy to the
Vatican, paid a farewell call on Pope Pius XII, and left Rome for the
U. S. Few thought ailing Envoy Taylor would ever return. But the Holy
See's diplomacy, canniest in the world, had already taken a step to
neutralize the effects of his departure. Day before the Taylor farewell
the Pope ap pointed Monsignor Joseph Patrick Hurley, only U. S. member
of his Secretariate of State, as Bishop of St. Augustine, Fla.

Bishop-elect Hurley's predecessor at St. Augustine, the Most
Rev. Patrick Barry, had died only six days...